If your child has suffered from a birth injury, you may be entitled to recover compensation from a birth injury lawsuit or settlement. Contact a birth injury lawyer to request a free case review.
A team of birth injury lawyers and personal injury attorneys is investigating potential birth injury lawsuit cases and settlement claims of family and parents whose babies, children or infants suffered from birth injuries due to medical malpractice.
Every year, about 7 babies out of every 1000 children born in the United States suffer from serious birth injuries. In other words, of the approximately 4 million babies born each year in the US, about 24,000 to 32,000 of them are likely to suffer from birth related injuries and complications, often resulting in permanent disabilities.
Many birth related injuries are preventable with proper medical care. Unfortunately, however, all too often babies are harmed due to the medical malpractice or negligence of healthcare providers and medical professionals including doctors (OB-Gyn, Obstetrician, etc.), nurses and hospitals and others who may have (despite their best intentions) failed to use reasonable care during the birth delivery process.
Birth Injury Lawsuit Cases
Birth injury lawsuit and settlement cases potentially being investigated include claims involving children who suffered serious birth related injuries or complications, including, among others, the following:
- Cerebral Palsy
- Brain Damage
- Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE)
- Neonatal Encephalopathy
- Erb’s Palsy
- Brachial Plexus Injury
- Klumpke’s Palsy
- Peripheral Nerve Injury
- Caput Succedaneum
- Cephalohematoma
- Periventricular Leukomalacia
- Shoulder Dystocia
- Brain Bleed (Hemorrhage)
- Skull, Clavicle or Collarbone Fracture
- Kernicterus
- Spinal Cord Injuries
- Fetal Stroke
- Hydrocephalus
- Infant Anemia
- Infection
- Sepsis, Meningitis, Encephalitis or Pneumonia
- Other serious birth injury
- Stillborn/Stillbirth
- Death
- Other birth injury lawsuit cases
- Other medical malpractice lawsuit claims
Birth Injuries & Complications
Injuries due to childbirth can include those caused by or that involve the following types of birth related complications, among others:
- Oxygen Deprivation (Birth Asphyxia)
- Umbilical cord injuries
- C-Section errors and delays
- Uterine rupture complications
- Uterine Tachysystole Injuries
- Placental abruption injuries
- Placenta previa injuries
- Placenta Accreta
- Respiratory Distress Syndrome
- Induced labor
- Delayed delivery
- Prolonged labor complications
- Delivery room errors
- Fetal Distress
- Improper fetal monitoring
- Improper anesthesia
- Medication issues
- Pitocin, Oxytocin, Cervidil or Cytotec injuries
- Birth Trauma
- Abormnal fetal position (Breech, Brow, Face, Shoulder)
- Premature Birth Complications
- Fetal Acidosis & Fetal Hypoxia
- Meconium Aspiration Syndrome
- Obstetrical forceps injury
- Vacuum extractor injuries
- Fetal Macrosomia Injury
- Cephalopelvic Disproportion Injury
- Cerebral Compression Injuries
- Vasa Previa
- High risk pregnancies
- Preeclampsia (Maternal High Blood Pressure)
- Chorioamnionitis (Maternal infection)
- Gestational diabetes
- Vaginal Birth after C-Section (VBAC)
Signs of Possible Birth Injury
Signs and symptoms of birth injury can vary. Although most birth injuries are diagnosed when a baby is born, about seven percent of birth injuries are diagnosed in the first year of the baby’s life and about 14 percent of birth injuries (typically those involving cognitive and developmental impairments) are diagnosed when the child is school age.
For example, possible signs that a newborn has suffered from birth injury after delivery can include:
- Blue or pale skin
- Slow breathing rate or wheezing
- Apnea
- Slow heart rate (Bradycardia)
- Low oxygen levels
- Low blood pressure
- Need for CPR or breathing tube
- Need to be revived or resuscitated
- Neotnatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) admission
- Lethargy
- Low APGAR scores
- Awkward body movements
- Unusual stiffness or floppiness
- Weak muscle tone
- Lack of interest in or difficulty feeding
- Abnormal neonatal reflexes
- Organ problems
- Coma
- Low birth weight
- Paralysis
- Seizures
- Grunting
- High-pitched crying
- Unusually shaped skull or head
- Unusual eye movements
- Microcephaly
- Jaundice (yellow skin color)
- Elevated Bilirubin
- Neonatal Hypoglycemia (Infant Low Blood Sugar)
- Bruising, swelling, cuts or bleeding
Signs of possible birth injury during childhood can include, for example:
- Developmental Delay
- Intellectual or Cognitive Deficit
- Mental Retardation
- Attention Deficit Disorder
- Motor function impairments
- Speech-language disorders
- Vision impairments or blindness
- Hearing impairment or deafness
- Behavioral problems
Time Is Limited To File A Birth Injury Lawsuit. Connect With a Birth Injury Lawyer or Attorney.
Deadlines known as statutes of limitation and statutes of repose may limit the amount of time that parents and loved ones have to file a birth injury lawsuit case to try to recover compensation for injuries suffered by their children due to medical negligence.
This means that if a birth injury lawsuit claim is not filed before the applicable time limit or deadline, the claimant may be barred from ever taking legal action or pursuing litigation regarding the birth injury claim. That is why it is important to connect with a birth injury lawyer or attorney as soon as possible.
If your child has suffered from serious birth related injuries or complications, you and your child may be entitled to compensation from a birth injury lawsuit or settlement. Contact a birth injury lawyer to request a free case review.
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